Eighteenth-century Women Playwrights

• Author(s): Derek Hughes,
• Publisher: Pickering & Chatto
• Pages: 1864
• ISBN_10: 1851966161
  ISBN_13: 9781851966165
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Drama / Women Authors , Literary Criticism / General ,

Description:... This six-volume anthology documents the history of women's drama throughout the 18th century, starting with the emergence in 1695-6 of the second generation of women dramatists to Aphra Benn. It includes the work of Catherine Trotter, Mary Pix, Eliza Haywood and Elizabeth Griffith.